Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
prosecution s case, the defense will is a chance to respond. and not just in the court of public opinion. chris and andrea, thank you very much. that s going to do it for us this afternoon. i m katy tur. on behalf of all my colleagues and everybody out there, thank you so much. msnbc s special coverage of donald trump s fourth indictment continues now with nicolle wallace. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in the east. a lutheran pastor in illinois, former publicist for kanyea west, a whole bunch of attorneys and at the tippy top a former president of the united states, all of them involved in what is now described as a, quote, criminal enterprise, in service of nothing less than overturning america s democracy. that is how last night s extraordinary indictment of 19 people, including donald trump on a charge normally used to